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Henri Riviere
Cover illustration for Die Graphischen Kunste, Volume 22

1899

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  • Bloques (Road Block)
    By Georges Meunier
    Located in Fairlawn, OH
    Bloques (Road Block) Color lithograph, 1905 Signed and numbered in pencil lower right; signed and dated in the stone lower right (see photo) Edition: 100, first edition (33/100) Published by Edmund Sagot, Paris Printed by Atelier Chaix, Paris Deluxe edition with artist's signature and penciled edition, as well as Sagot blindstamp There is an unlimited edition with title and publisher, printer text below the image. (state ii/II) Condition: Excellent, never matted or framed Image size: 13 x 19 5/8 inches Sheet size: 18 x 24 3/4 inches Provenance: Edmund Sagot (1857-1917) publisher Sagot Heirs Georges Meunier (1869-1934) Meunier was born in Saint-Cloud, France in 1869. He moved to Paris as a young man and studied at the National School of Fine Arts; there, he was a student of artist Joseph-Robert Fleury. Following this training, Meunier attended The School for the Decorative Arts where he was trained in both classical and modern design, these skills would later influence his poster graphics. Subsequent to his education, Meunier's posters were exhibited in salons throughout Paris, giving his work notoriety. George Meunier was a prolific artist at the turn-of-the-century influenced greatly by Cheret, the founder of the advertising poster movement. Meunier succeeded Cheret at the Chaix printing house as principal artist and director. He worked as a poster artist for only a short time, making a career change to a book illustrator, which he pursued until the end of his life. Regarding the publisher Edmund Sagot (1857-1917) Edmond-Honoré Sagot , born in 1857 and died on April 6 , 1917, is a bookseller , art dealer , publisher of prints and original posters . In 1881 he founded the house “Ed. Sagot” in Paris. This establishment still exists under the name “ Sagot - Le Garrec ” and is one of the oldest art galleries still in operation. Edmond Sagot is the first contemporary art dealer...
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  • La Pointe de Bretteville
    By Paul Berthon
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    La Pointe de Bretteville Color lithograph, 1899 Signed in the stone upper right Publisher: Sagot, Paris Edition: Edition: about 200 (per Arwas) Referenc...
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  • Cover illustration for Die Graphischen Kunste, Volume 22
    By Henri Riviere
    Located in Fairlawn, OH
    Cover illustration for Die Graphischen Kunste, Volume 22 Color lithograph, 1899 Signed with the artist's initials lower center (see photo) From: The Graphic Arts, Volume 22, 1899 ...
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  • A L'Ombre (In Shadow)
    By Louis Legrand
    Located in Fairlawn, OH
    A L'Ombre (In Shadow) Etching & drypoint, 1905 Signed with the red stamp of the publisher Pellet (see photo) Edition: 50 on velin paper, signed and numbered Publisher: Gustav Pellet, Paris (his red stamp lower right, recto; Lugt 1193) Condition: Excellent Image/Plate size: 5-7/8 x 8-5/8" (14.8 x 21.8 cm.) Sheet size: 11 5/8 x 17 1/8" Reference: IFF 119 Exteens 229 Arwas 256 v/V Louis Auguste Mathieu Legrand (29 September 1863 – 1951) was a French artist, known especially for his aquatint engravings, which were sometimes erotic. He was awarded the Légion d'honneur for his work in 1906. Life Legrand was born in the city of Dijon in the east of France. He worked as a bank clerk before deciding to study art part-time at Dijon's Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He won the Devosge prize at the school in 1883.[2] In 1884 Legrand studied engraving under the Belgian printmaker Félicien Rops. Legrand's artworks include etchings, graphic art and paintings. His paintings featured Parisian social life. Many were of prostitutes, dancers and bar scenes, which featured a sense of eroticism. According to the Hope Gallery, "Louis Legrand is simply one of France's finest early twentieth century masters of etching." His black and white etchings especially provide a sense of decadence; they have been compared to those of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, though his drawings of the Moulin Rouge, the can-can dance and the young women of Montmartre preceded Toulouse-Lautrec's paintings of similar scenes. He made over three hundred prints of the night life of Paris. They demonstrate "his remarkable powers of observation and are executed with great skill, delicacy, and an ironic sense of humor that pervades them all." Two of his satirical artworks caused him to be tried for obscenity. The first, "Prostitution" was a symbolic drawing which depicted a naked girl being grasped by a dark monster which had the face of an old woman and claws on its hands; the second, "Naturalism", showed the French novelist Émile Zola minutely studying the thighs of a woman with a magnifying glass. Defended by his friend the lawyer Eugène Rodrigues-Henriques (1853–1928), he was found not guilty in the lower court, but was convicted in the appeal court and then given a short prison sentence for refusing to pay his fine. Legrand was made famous by his colour illustrations for Gil Blas magazine's coverage of the can-can, with text by Rodrigues (who wrote under the pseudonym Erastene Ramiro). It was a tremendous success, with the exceptional quantity of 60,000 copies of the magazine being printed and instantly sold out in 1891. In 1892, at the instigation of the publishing house Dentu, Legrand made a set of etchings of his Gil Blas illustrations. The etchings were published in a book, Le Cours de Danse Fin de Siecle (The End of the Century Dance Classes). Legrand took a holiday in Brittany, which inspired him to engrave a set of fourteen lithographs of simple country life called Au Cap de la Chevre (On Goat Promontory). It was published by Gustave Pellet who became a close friend of Legrand's. Pellet eventually published a total of 300 etchings by Legrand, who was his first artist; he also published Toulouse-Lautrec and Félicien Rops among others. He did not only work in graphics; he exhibited paintings at the Paris salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts starting in 1902. In 1906 he was made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur. Legrand died in obscurity in 1951. A retrospective exhibition was held at the Félicien Rops museum in Namur, Belgium in 2006 to celebrate his graphic art. The art collector Victor Arwas published a catalogue raisonné for the occasion. Books illustrated de Maupassant, Guy: Cinq Contes Parisiens, 1905. Poe, Edgar Alan: Quinze Histoires d'Edgar Poe...
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  • Snow Mountain (or Lake in the Mountains)
    By Adolf Arthur Dehn
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    Signed lower right Edition: Undetermined, plus an artist's edition of 10 Edition: Undetermined, plus an artist's edition of 10 Published by the Associated American Artist ...
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  • Ile de la Cite
    By Robert Delaunay
    Located in Fairlawn, OH
    Signed by the artist in pencil Edition: Rare proof on chine From Joseph Delteil's "Allo, Paris," published by Quatre Chemins, Paris, 1926 Altlier blindstamp l.l.
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